The Age of Halloween is over. Now is the Age of...

[Gallifrey Secundaria]

7 people died and 90 people got injured. It's a ridiculous holiday.

My sympathies to them, but I digress. Black Friday is beneficial.

The violence far outweighs the benefit in my opinion.

[Herrebrugh]

I prefer Sinterklaasje bonne bonne bonne.
Never been much of a Christmas fan, to be honest...

That seems to be a song, not a holiday.

It's a Sinterklaas song. Like Christmas, Christmas time is here, with Christmas songs you love to hear which is mentioned in the poll is a Christmas song.

Not a fan of Christmas, eh? See:

Join me in Halloween's war on Christmas! Halloween shall last until Krampusnacht!

VECHT!

By the way, I don't celebrate Halloween either...

[The Liberated Territories]

My sympathies to them, but I digress. Black Friday is beneficial.

The violence far outweighs the benefit in my opinion.

Ditto. You are talking like a small percentage of people out of millions who participate every year. It's the other way around for me.

At the very least they should have police monitor "Black Friday hotspots" or whatever.

[The Liberated Territories]

My sympathies to them, but I digress. Black Friday is beneficial.

Ah, the spirit of commercialism...

EDIT: Or, rather, the lack there of.

I know, isn't it great?

[TheStonedSurfers]

Nice. Sounds like a secondary Halloween.

It could be, if Christmas weren't waging war on the other holidays.

Retailers are waging the war against other holidays. Christmas, itself, can do nothing as it is an inanimate object

[Gallifrey Secundaria]

It could be, if Christmas weren't waging war on the other holidays.

Retailers are waging the war against other holidays. Christmas, itself, can do nothing as it is an inanimate object

Santa would like to disagree with you on that.

[TheStonedSurfers]

Retailers are waging the war against other holidays. Christmas, itself, can do nothing as it is an inanimate object

Santa would like to disagree with you on that.

I bet that santa doesn't eat cookies left by children. He looks like he eats the children.

[Benuty]

Nice. Sounds like a secondary Halloween.

It could be, if Christmas weren't waging war on the other holidays.

What do you mean "Christ"?

They've got nothing to do with the day .

[TheStonedSurfers]

Also, joining the "let's put a Santa hat on things" crowd today.

[The Liberated Territories]

Also, joining the "let's put a Santa hat on things" crowd today.

Yay!

[TheStonedSurfers]

Also, joining the "let's put a Santa hat on things" crowd today.

Yay!

I certainly wasn't the first, but, I figure that, since it's cold here and we had hail covering the ground this morning like freshly-fallen snow, and the forecast seems to think a few snow flakes and sleet pellets might mix into the ice-cold rain tonight, why the hell not. It certainly feels like Christmas in Southeastern North Carolina.

[Reploid Productions]

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IFFY, CHRISTMAS SEASON DOESN'T START UNTIL 8AM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28TH AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU OR THE TEEVEE OR THE RADIO OR ALL THE STUPID ADS SAY I DISBELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!11111oneoneshift+one!

Seriously. Any store that opens any earlier than at LEAST 6am Black Friday I will not do any of my holiday shopping at, and I make a point of informing such stores of this whenever and wherever it is possible to send such feedback to the people who make that decision. Any radio station that starts playing holiday music before Thanksgiving, I stop listening to until January. I draw the line at Black Friday, and I will hold it with every dollar and where I choose to spend it!

Also, only 365 days until Halloween, so there!

[TheStonedSurfers]

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IFFY, CHRISTMAS SEASON DOESN'T START UNTIL 8AM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28TH AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU OR THE TEEVEE OR THE RADIO OR ALL THE STUPID ADS SAY I DISBELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!11111oneoneshift+one!

Seriously. Any store that opens any earlier than at LEAST 6am Black Friday I will not do any of my holiday shopping at, and I make a point of informing such stores of this whenever and wherever it is possible to send such feedback to the people who make that decision. Any radio station that starts playing holiday music before Thanksgiving, I stop listening to until January. I draw the line at Black Friday, and I will hold it with every dollar and where I choose to spend it!

Also, only 365 days until Halloween, so there!

The radio station here will play Christmas music from Thanksgiving Day until midnight Christmas Day/26th of December. At least I won't have to listen to too much Ho, Ho, Ho right now.

[The Liberated Territories]

Yay!

I certainly wasn't the first, but, I figure that, since it's cold here and we had hail covering the ground this morning like freshly-fallen snow, and the forecast seems to think a few snow flakes and sleet pellets might mix into the ice-cold rain tonight, why the hell not. It certainly feels like Christmas in Southeastern North Carolina.

Come to New Jersey. It's hella cold here today, and I don't even know why it didn't snow.

[TheStonedSurfers]

I certainly wasn't the first, but, I figure that, since it's cold here and we had hail covering the ground this morning like freshly-fallen snow, and the forecast seems to think a few snow flakes and sleet pellets might mix into the ice-cold rain tonight, why the hell not. It certainly feels like Christmas in Southeastern North Carolina.

Come to New Jersey. It's hella cold here today, and I don't even know why it didn't snow.

I'm originally from Philadelphia. I'm familiar with the climate there. The weather we're having here is great for up there, but down here it's almost like armageddon.

[The Liberated Territories]

Come to New Jersey. It's hella cold here today, and I don't even know why it didn't snow.

I'm originally from Philadelphia. I'm familiar with the climate there. The weather we're having here is great for up there, but down here it's almost like armageddon.

Yes. Hail sucks, it's like the evil brother of snow.

I like cold nights like these. Almost makes me want to make hot chocolate milk. Hmm...

[Nervium]

Well, it seems the International Anti-Santaclausista Brigades have to be assembeled again.

One day wewill bring Christmas to it's knees, and shove it back where it belongs!

By the way, I don't celebrate Halloween either...

The VVD is in your government, so basically every day is Halloween.

[Greater Beggnig]

Totally ready to have mince pies and a full roast with plum pudding for desert like Englishmen on a 35 degree (Celsius) day in the Australian summer.
My extended family is mad, but we love it.

But it's sad that I can no longer not celebrate Halloween like an Australian Ebenezer Scrooge, along with the majority of Aussies who reject this American-English-Celtic holiday. Nor can I continue be a hypocrite by criticizing people in Australia for wearing heavy, hot costumes when Summer is just around the corner (Oct 31 here was 31 degrees (pun not intended)) while celebrating Christmas (which is occasionally a hotter day, 35 or so) as described above.

[GrandKirche]

First things first, Guy Fawkes/Bonfire night. Then we get all Jesus-excited, having celebrated a Catholic plot failing and the people involved being executed.

[Darspazistan]

I would at least hope that retailers (and people in general) hold off on decorating for the Christmas season until, at the absolute least, Remembrance Day has passed. Seems to be in very poor taste to have a day dedicated to the memories of fallen soldiers be marred by fucking commercialized-as-shit Christmas decorations plastered everywhere.

What's Remembrance Day?

[Greater Beggnig]

I would at least hope that retailers (and people in general) hold off on decorating for the Christmas season until, at the absolute least, Remembrance Day has passed. Seems to be in very poor taste to have a day dedicated to the memories of fallen soldiers be marred by fucking commercialized-as-shit Christmas decorations plastered everywhere.

What's Remembrance Day?

As described above. It's in the memory of lost servicemen in Canada and Britain, but ANZAC Day is more popular in Australia.

[New haven america]

Merry Christmas!

[Ifreann]

...Christmas.

Yes indeed, just as the election results in 2012 spelled the beginning of the campaign for 2016, the post-Halloween hangover(whether sugar or alcohol induced) spells the beginning of the Christmas season. Put away your Sexy Nurse Who Might Have Ebola stockings and dig out something more suitable for hanging by the fireplace. Out with the ghosts and in with the elves. Forget about razor blades in your apples, now is the time to worry about Obama making it illegal to say "Merry Christmas". Had fun being grumpy about children coming to your house all night? Time to get grumpy about me making this thread on the first of fucking November(God that Ifreann is an awful bastard, grumble grumble back in my day...). Been telling your friends how the Christians stole Halloween from pagans? That was the dress rehearsal, and curtains are in five.

So have you started your Christmas preparations yet? Have you finished your Christmas preparations, you crazy person? Do you want to rant about Christmas coming earlier and earlier? Have I become everything you hate about the modern, commercialised holiday season?

Despite what you may think from my having made this thread, I'm not actually the type to jump into Crimbo so early. I'm pretty much just taking the piss with this thread. Though, my family has kinda been gearing up for Christmas for a while now. Christmas dinner, specifically. My parents and a few friends decided over several drinks last Christmas that, since one of them had raised chickens, they'd all go in on some turkeys for this year. And surprisingly they followed through. So for a few months there have been turkeys in my next door neighbour's back garden. They're a lot quieter than the chickens were, I'll give them that much.




PS: Santa isn't real. Sorry kids.
PPS: Oh, also Hannukah and Kwanza!
PPPS: Shit, isn't Eid around this time of year too?

1. I do not decorate my house during Christmas. I do not bother with the lights, X-mas trees, elf cutouts etc. The place shall not be decorated.

2. I shall not engage in mass consumerism of things I do not need like discounted clothing. I shall not fall prey to the blind consumerism.

So no, I do not need to ''prepare'' for Christmas at all.

I'm just going to spend it alone in the house, using the holidays to spend more time watching movies, playing video games, drawing, and having a few trips to fancy restaurants.

But there will be no, Christmas-specific preparations. There will be no such thing.

Bah, humbug.

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Confirmed: Ifreann is Target.

Target for what?

[Gallifrey Secundaria]

1. I do not decorate my house during Christmas. I do not bother with the lights, X-mas trees, elf cutouts etc. The place shall not be decorated.

2. I shall not engage in mass consumerism of things I do not need like discounted clothing. I shall not fall prey to the blind consumerism.

So no, I do not need to ''prepare'' for Christmas at all.

I'm just going to spend it alone in the house, using the holidays to spend more time watching movies, playing video games, drawing, and having a few trips to fancy restaurants.

But there will be no, Christmas-specific preparations. There will be no such thing.

Bah, humbug.

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Confirmed: Ifreann is Target.

Target for what?

Target for Target.